Ive decided to build a new incubator as my old one is now to small. I did a a couple coolers last year and it worked great, but I'm expecting more clutches. Im halfway and have a few questions. I would like to draw your attention to my abomination haha. I cut the freezer off the top off of it and attached a sheet of plywood (mostly to stack stuff on top of it and to insulate better.)
1) the old fridge came with glass shelves which doesnt have any space between them for air curculation. My solution is to use 1" alumium stock as cross support and very heavy gauge concrete mesh (im not sure if its galvanized). This is the best solution I can come up with but if you guys have a better idea I'm all ears, I do understand it is overkill as these boxes arent heavy. As you can see in the picture I should be able to put 3 bins per shelf.
2) How much space do you have to have between the incubation box and eachother, along with how much space from the wall in order to allow proper air flow? How much space above and below the boxes aka) how far apart should my shelves be? I will be installing two computer fans (one at the top to push the air down one side and one blowing up on the other side) I would like to mount both on the top blowing down but please tell me what you think.
3) How do you reduce the power input to the computer fans as it doesnt seem that they were designed to run on full 110 power? I saw something online about phone charging cables but again im open to ideas.
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